"Megabyte" and "Gigabyte" now mean the hardware manufacturer standard of 1MB = 10^6, 1GB = 10^9 etc.
These and other measurements done in base 2 like we learned 50 years ago are now "Mibibyte" (MiB 2^20) and "Gibibyte" (GiB 2^30), etc.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/what-is-gibibyte
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Vern Hamberg:
I am sorry to have to say, but 2 GB is actually 1 more than 2,147,483,647 - still, it is more than 16 MB - I believe a GB in this context is 1024 * 3, not 1000 * 3.
It can be - and it's also my preferred calculation
2GB = 2 * 1024 ** 3 bytes
but the rest of our world already adopted the "new" form of 2 * 1000 ** 3 - just ask Google "How many bytes in 2GB" and your answer will be
2GB = 2000000000 bytes
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